Even Polly Toynbee is attacking excessive public sector salaries

It's not often that I get the chance to say this, so here goes: Polly Toynbee is right. For a long time, she has been tearing into over-rewarded bankers and FTSE directors. Fair enough: that's her shtick, it's what her fans enjoy. But I can't have been the only reader left wondering, as I finished her columns, when she would get around to talking about public sector executives and their six-figure salaries.

Well, now she has, and her article is worth reading in full. As always, she has done her primary research, dug out some eye-popping figures, and named names. When even Polly Toynbee thinks that BBC directors and council chief executives and quangocrats are being paid more than they deserve, the national mood can be said to have shifted irreversibly.